Free dvd subtitle software for windows

DVDSubEdit allows you to visualize and make modifications to the subpics (subtitles or button highlights in menus) directly inside the VOB files, without the need to demux and remux the subpic stream.
DVDSubEdit is a tool that allows you edit DVD subtitle.

Main features:
- DVDSubEdit works with vob files or sup files (created for example by PgcDemux, or VobEdit) and does not require any demuxing/remuxing (it works directly inside the VOB files, and processing is quasi instantaneous).
- DVDSubEdit allows you to reposition your subtitles exactly where you want them, horizontally or vertically, for all display modes (4:3, widescreen, letterboxed, pan&scan).
- DVDSubEdit lets you change the transparency and the color of each subtitle, or hide them entirely.
- DVDSubEdit allows you to resynchronize your subtitles with your video, by changing the start time and the duration.
- DVDSubEdit can run an OCR (optical character recognition) algorithm on your subtitles, so you can search them, modify them and export them as .srt.
- DVDSubEdit allows you to remove annoying parts in your subtitles (for example, text intended for hearing-impaired persons). You can also selectively remove typos in the subtitles, all this without re-authoring!
- DVDSubEdit saves your changes directly inside the vob files (which is very quick), and also lets you export your subs to .sup and .srt format. You can also save individual subs as ppm.

Enhancements:
- Version 1.5
- Added support for real-time playback of video with audio and subtitles. There are two new buttons that can be used to play the video while displaying the subpictures. One plays the video normally, the other one loops around the current subpic. There is a drop down in the preferences for the frame-per-second adjustment, in case your machine is running out of cycles when playing video (which is possible because DVDSubEdit does not use the overlay buffer, and therefore consumes more cycle than a normal video playback engine).
- * Added support for VOB files larger than 1GB.
- * Added an option to only select subpics that are fully transparent.
- * Changed the behavior of the "Hide" button. Instead of making all pixels transparent, it assigns all pixels to "background".
- * Added better handling of non MPEG2 video (the video isnt displayed, which avoids crashing!).
- * Added an ini option (AutoForceDisplayVideo) to not automatically display the video when opening VOBs etc.
- * Finally fixed the problem of vertical moves by odd numbers of lines, by swapping the top and bottom fields when the top field ends up below the bottom field after a move. This should fix the problems with media player classic and other players.
- * Fixed a display problem that occurred when loading sup files with IFOs.
- * Fixed a bug that occurred in the OCR when subtitles were present at the top and at the bottom of the display, and one attempted to erase some characters at the bottom.
- * Fixed the wrong display of the number of MB scanned during the scanning of a VOB file.
- * Removed the "Not enough room for padding block" error (changed to a warning in the log since its not crucial anyway).
- * When reloading from the MRU, the list of subpics is now updated as the reloading takes place.
- * Added better reporting of errors found in the subpic streams.
- * If the user aborts while a vob file is being analyzed, the vob is no longer put in the MRU.
- * Fixed a (very old) bug that could cause a subpic that had been moved down to cause a UI spillover when the background video wasnt displayed.
- * Fixed a problem that could occur when no CLUT was found (no IFO file for example).
- * Fixed cosmetic problems related to showing or hiding the background video.
- * Modified the way the subpic info is saved and loaded (for fast reloading of previously scanned DVDs). This simplifies the code and the file. As a result, the first time you run this version, none of your recently-used files will be available for fast-reload.
- * Fixed a bug in the "Save as sup file" function that prevented a new sup file from being created.
- * Added code to deal with a padding stream smack in the middle of our subpic data, as seen in DVDs created by ConvertXtoDVD.
- * Fixed a problem in the timecode display. The value didnt correspond to the time shown in a player if the PTS of the first VOBU wasnt close to 0.

Subtitle Scale is a useful command line utility that allows you to scale movie subtitles. All you have to do is input the times for the first and last subtitle phrase and their respective lines in the movie and this application will generate the scaled subtitle.

SubtitleCreator converts ASCII-based text files in SubRips SRT or MicroDVDs SUB format to the binary SUP format expected by DVD authoring tools such as MuxMan or IfoEdit. As such, you are able to create and add your own subtitles to a DVD.
Since version 1.8, you can also manipulate existing subtitles, for example to shift them or to change their colors. Additionally, if you dont own the copyright of the DVD, you can overlay subtitles on top of your DVD. Finally, it also included a DVD Authoring Wizard function, which is especially useful for beginners and lazy people like me to add a new subtitle to a previously copied DVD (e.g. with DVDShrink).
It combines the power of PgcDemux, MuxMan and VobBlanker to add subtitles in one go, thereby even allowing you to retain the original DVD menu.
Main features:
- Convert SubRib (*.srt) or MicroDVD (*.sub) files to IfoEdit (*.sup) files
- Load the corresponding IFO file (thanks to the SubRip sources), such that you can use the same color palette as used by the original subtitles
- Based on the IFO color palette, it tries to select white text, a black outline and a silver anti-alias color on a transparent gray background
- Based on the IFO file, it determines whether we are dealing with PAL or NTSC, and sets the subtitle window position appropriately
- Uses the line breaks you defined in the *.srt source, such that dialogs stay on different lines. However, the maximum number is defined by you, and if it doesnt fit the window, the subtitles are joined and, if necessary, shrunken
- You can now also use italic, bold, or underlinedsubtitles
- You can also use , and for LARGE, large, and small text
- Preview and position your subtitles (using a screenshot as background)
- Deselect subtitles that you dont want
- Automatically deselects credit lines (with @, or http)
- Choose the font that you like to use, and its outline width
- Use profiles for default font and subtitle window position settings
- You can join several subtitle files, e.g. if the original subtitle consists of two parts
- Synchronize the subtitles using time shifting, frame rate conversion, or by watching the original DVD
- Synchronize the subtitles using the original subtitle *.sup file: by selecting a few matching subtitles in the text and original subtitle files, all subtitle start times are re-adjusted linearly.
- Stretch subtitles in horizontal and vertical direction
- Specify how many lines you wish to use for the subtitle
- Specify whether you want SC to automatically wrap lines
- Specify whether you want SC to generate bitmaps of the subtitles for you
- Specify whether you want SC to remove double spaces and other types of annoyances
- When opening a MicroDVDs SUB file, special formatting commands are automatically recognized, like {Y:i}, {Y:b} and {Y:bi}
- You can define your own shortcuts in the configuration file,
- You can search for a subtitle string.
System requirements:
- Microsoft .Net 2.0LINK

Enhancements:
- New features:
- Finish translation was added by Ropsi
- Added a snapshot feature (frame grabber), so you can take a snapshot of the DVD (including subtitles)
- Its now possible to specify the color and (semi)transparency per subtitle: transparency is no longer on/off, but can take a value between 0 (transparent) and 15 (opaque)
- You can import external images (GIF or PNG, (semi-)transparent): the images can be imported using the ImageName.png tags. Since regular subtitles may only contain four colours, the images may look different, since the colors will be mapped to the four most useful colors in the current palette. So changing the palette may give different results too.
- You can mix and match subtitle sources, e.g. combine a SUP file with several images and regular text. When you save it to an SRT file, all SUPs and images will be saved as images.
- You can overrule not only the subtitle position (which was already possible), but also the color and transparency. The syntax is as follows:
- where the first part denotes the position of the subtitle area, ci is the color index in the current palette for background, foreground, outline, antialias, and karaoke, and t its transparency.
- Note that the ci... part is optional, and that the height of the subtitle area is expressed as a number of lines in the current font.
- Added an option (Format|Render method|Drop shadow) to draw subtitles with a semi-transparent drop shadow
- Added opening binary subtitles inside the main window: basically, this makes the Manipulate SUP window superfluous.
- Added support for Drag-Drop of *.idx and *.sup files. Added support for Drag-Drop of color palette (in the color box).
- Minor improvement to the title display, so that the first and last part is always retained
- Bug fixes:
- Fixed a remaining bug of the SRT to SUP conversion. When SC was generating a Subtitle with a solid background, the top left pixel was not set to the right color. This should be OK now.
- The Help->Manual command is working with Acrobat Reader 8.
- Restored the possibility to generate overlapping subtitles i.e. subtitles that have an infinite duration when the end time of one subtitles is equal to the start time of the next one OR better when the end time is 0, as was possible with version 2.1.
- Added the possibility to open SUP files where some SubPics have no STP_DSP, and show them having an end time of 0. This allows to conserve this information and write it again when saving the subtitle file.
- Fixed a bug in Google translate - still didnt protect against too frequent querries, causing Google to consider SC an automatic virus or something like that.
- Fixed HD-SUP reading bugs
- Fixed an out of memory exception bug that occured when opening HD-SUP files thanks to the help of Wackyphill. Had to add a Gc.Collect().
- Fixed a bug : when adding a negative delay (.srt and .sup files) there was an exception.
- Fixed MRU bug : When opening a subtitle (srt) that SC finds corrupt, there is an exception but sometimes the subtitle is put in the MRU (Most Recently Used) list. When subsequently opening SC there always occurs an exception, bec. SC was trying to open this same file. This version of SC fixes this bug. Now the corrupt file is removed from the MRU list at the next opening.
- Fixed a long subtitle bug: when filling a whole page with subtitle text, the memory buffer was too small, causing the memorywriter to crash.
- Fixed a bug when using the DVD wizard across different hard disks
- In case of languages without spaces, e.g. Chinese, I split the string at a point without spaces.
- When opening SUP files that have more than 1 SP_DCSQT, only the first one is used. This enhances the compatibility with DVDSupEncode.